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Geologists have unearthed the world’s oldest known water, hidden deep beneath the surface of a Canadian mine for an astonishing 2.64 billion years. The find, which was detailed in a 2016 study published in Nature, has profound implications…

Past studies have found that gut activity can have significant impacts on the brain, and vice versa.

Now, new research in mice explains how some of that communication might occur: through very small numbers of live bacteria traveling from the…

I cook for myself most nights. It’s one of those rituals I look forward to after a day of being stuck in my own head, working through ideas and staring at a screen. There’s something grounding about chopping vegetables and stirring something…

Decades-old canned salmon has turned into an unexpected scientific archive. What was once discarded inventory is now helping researchers track parasite populations across more than 40 years. The findings suggest these overlooked organisms…

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on from its arrival to Earth, that sample has yielded some insights about what may have seeded life on our planet. Read on…

A newly discovered Amazon spider has evolved one of nature’s most unsettling disguises: it mimics a parasitic fungus that kills and zombifies its hosts. The find, published in the journal Zootaxa, marks the first documented case of an…

Molecular vibrations can “catapult” electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second‬ ‪— much faster than previously thought, a new study shows.

The findings could help scientists find more efficient ways to convert solar…

In 1865, a dead jellyfish washed onto a Massachusetts beach. When scientists measured it, they discovered that its bell measured 2.1 meters (7 feet) across, making it wider than most doorways. What was more shocking were its tentacles: they…

While devices like smartphones and laptops are ubiquitous now, these machines weren’t always so common. The origins of computing go back well before the advent of electronic machines. From the abacus in ancient times to Electronic Numerical…